Springsteen released The Ties That Bind: The River Collection on December 4, 2015. His show on Septemat Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia clocked in at 4 hours and 4 minutes, Springsteen's longest show in the United States, and the second longest ever in his career, at just two minutes shy of his 2012 show in Helsinki. Springsteen broke his longest show record in the United States a few times towards the end of the tour. Many of the shows have lasted over three and a half hours with around 33 songs being performed. The other shows have featured a large part of the album performed, albeit not always in album order. All shows on the first North American leg of tour and some shows from the second leg featured a full-length sequential performance of The River album. The tour marked the first tour in two years for Springsteen and the E Street Band. Springsteen and the E Street Band also hold the biggest Boxscore for 2016, with the May 27 and 29 shows at Dublin's Croke Park taking in $19,228,100 from 160,188 attendance for two sellout shows. The River 2016 Tour was the top grossing worldwide tour of 2016 pulling in $268.3 million globally and was the highest-grossing tour since 2014 for any artist topping Taylor Swift's 2015 tour which grossed $250.1 million. The River Tour 2016 ended in September 2016, however dates in 2017 were added using the same promotional image from the original legs, and the tour was subsequently billed as Summer '17.
The River Tour was a concert tour by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band in support of Springsteen's 2015 The Ties That Bind: The River Collection box set and in celebration of the 35th anniversary of Springsteen's 1980 album, The River. The River Tour Tour by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Bandīruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concert chronology
For Springsteen's 1980–1981 tour, see The River Tour.
This article is about the tour in support of The Ties That Bind: The River Collection.